LEADERS
DIGEST
A love of learning
is the key to your growth BY ROSHAN THIRAN
Over the course of his presidency, Abraham Lincoln the 16th President of the United States - fought more fronts to keep his young country together than any other president before him or since.
Lincoln was later hailed as a “liberator of the slaves, the saviour of the Union, and a martyr for the cause of freedom”, and is widely regarded as America’s greatestever president.
With the unfolding of the American Civil War, he had to navigate political and military implications of the conflict threatening to tear the United States apart. As a staunch abolitionist, Lincoln would also be instrumental in the passage of the Thirteenth Amendment, which made slavery unconstitutional.
Like many great historic figures, Lincoln didn’t see his greatness as a natural gift. Alongside the likes of da Vinci and Einstein, he acknowledged that any success he achieved came down to a tireless curiosity, an endless thirst for knowledge, and a compelling desire to understand the world in which he lived.
From within his famous “Team of Rivals” cabinet, Abraham Lincoln fought and strived to cement the future for his country as a bastion of liberty and freedom at a time when its future was as uncertain as during the years of the Revolutionary War.
Stories abound about Lincoln’s love for reading, how he would walk any distance to borrow a book. As a famous quote of his goes, “The things I want to know are in books; my best friend is the man who’ll get me a book I ain’t read.”
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Issue 58 I December 2021
